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Store Interview SD: CI/CD from the forum, mainly focusing on how to achieve exactly-once execution under the premise of Fault Tolerant and Scalability.
Coding Machine Tree to count and topology, orig
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Store Interview SD: CI/CD from the forum, mainly focusing on how to achieve exactly-once execution under the premise of Fault Tolerant and Scalability.
Coding Machine Tree to count and topology, original question, not difficult to find on the forum. On-site Interview SD: Design Slack
Coding Toy language, mainly discussing details not mentioned in other interview experiences: 1) For the last question, infer_return, the provided parameter types must all be concrete types, and there will be no generics, so DFS is not needed. 2) Part 1 requires you to think of some test cases, and Part 2 provides test cases; you only need to make them all work. BQ: Unconventional BQ. First, talk about your past experiences and the reasons behind them based on your resume, then ask two BQ questions. Project Deep Dive
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This is a candidate experience report from a openai interview for a swe role during the onsite round reported in 2025.
It covers the following topics: Tree, Graph, Dfs .
Difficulty rating: Hard